Building a community

It's one of the things that concerned me most about home schooling from the beginning...making sure that he grows up into a community of people that know and love him.  I think now that I was wrong to make this an issue about home schooling.  I think it's an issue for kids in general.  Unless you belong (and are very active) in a church, it's hard to find a group of people to call your own.  There are definitely home school communities and we have a great group that we see almost every week now, but I really felt like we needed a little more.

Enter the community garden.  It's new in our little town and we're VERY excited to see it come together!  We went to a work day yesterday to help finish the building, mulching, and digging that needed to be done before the grand opening next week.  It's a fabulous, energetic, loving group of people and we had a wonderful time!

Chipmunk spent nearly two and a half hours filling wheelbarrows with dirt.  With a Chipmunk-sized trowel :)



 He really worked over there by himself for a long time - people kept coming up to offer help and he would tell them "No, thank you. It's MY job!"

I'm so excited that we're getting to be a part of this.  He's going to be able to learn about where his food comes from, gardening, friendship, helping people, and so much more!

Happy, dirty, and exhausted.  Just the way we like him!!  (Thanks so much for the photos, Gretchen!)